ESPN.com · Mar 17
Most probable first-round upsets in the men's 2026 NCAA tournament
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Cinderella hasn't shown her face much of late.
Only five double-digit seeds won in the first round of the 2025 men's NCAA tournament, and two were 10-seeds, which don't qualify as Giant Killers for the purposes of this column. The Elite Eight was tied for the chalkiest of all time -- all top-three seeds or better -- and the Final Four was just the second ever to feature four 1-seeds.
But we know that part of what makes March Madness so fun is the upsets and trying to identify them before they happen.
